{"id":2130,"date":"2012-02-14T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2012-02-14T18:32:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T18:32:39","slug":"276-no-u-turn-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/2012\/02\/14\/276-no-u-turn-really\/","title":{"rendered":"#276: No U-Turn?  Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading the book &#8220;<a title=\"The Eight Characters of Comedy: A Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eight-Characters-Comedy-Writing-ebook\/dp\/B002NLKWZW\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1329241944&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">The Eight Characters of Comedy: A Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing<\/a>&#8221; and I&#8217;m realizing that I am not &#8220;The Logical Smart One.&#8221; \u00a0I may not even be &#8220;The Lovable Loser.&#8221; \u00a0Oh, no&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I did our taxes this past week. \u00a0The good news is we don&#8217;t owe the government TEN thousand dollars. \u00a0Oh, thank goodness!<\/p>\n<p>My daughter had to work on her <em>Friend of the Week<\/em> poster at the park, while my son played in the soccer finals and I tried <em>not<\/em> to photograph the moms playing around the playground. \u00a0If a woman takes her kids to the park in heels and a tight blazer, I think that is entrapment and I think they should be stopped. \u00a0I&#8217;m not saying we should go back to those horrible acid-washed &#8220;Mom-Overall-Shorts&#8221; of the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s, but give me a break! \u00a0Moms in the real word shouldn&#8217;t look like they&#8217;re on <em>Desperate Housewives<\/em>. \u00a0Oh, wait. \u00a0I don&#8217;t live in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>There was traffic on the freeway, so I took a short cut. \u00a0A short cut to a trap. \u00a0Ugg. \u00a0Would doing a u-turn kill me? \u00a0You&#8217;d think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading the book &#8220;The Eight Characters of Comedy: A Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing&#8221; and I&#8217;m realizing that I am not &#8220;The Logical Smart One.&#8221; \u00a0I may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danklass.com\/pill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}